If i stuck my bike tools on a cool shadow board in my workshop like i had at the shops ive worked in id have to pull them all off the wall to load up the van and put them back on sunday night. Not great but no doubting its the easiest way to work with the tools !

Here's my movable workbench/condensed bikeshop, or so I call it. I bolted one of my repair stands to it as well as my truing stand, vise and set of t-handles. Sorry for the bike blocking the view It's got 4 swivelling casters on the bottom, so it's great to move from garage to garage (one's heated, one's not), or just out on the driveway on a nice day. I've got my floor mounted repair stand and other goodies for when I get a garage of my own and can take up more space

I'm gunna hafta clean mine up a bit,I donated a new-to-him tire to a neighborhood kid today for his BMX'er,and I was tripping all over my junk trying to get it installed,LOL! Hmm...maybe I should take down the tent that's in there (is set up to air out before winter storage)

This thread inspired me to fix my garage/workbench. The original plan was to clean, mount Pegboard, and use the old POS desk as workbench. With the assistance my FIL( really his idea) we built my work bench out of this menard metal storage shelf.

Before (with POS desk)

After

Still have to add a 2x4 across from of table, glue/screw workbench top and cut the excess wood on right side.

Here's my shop.Attachment 735281Attachment 735282Attachment 735279
I made the bench years ago a professional semi-portable repair shop that I owned. The unit rolls on industrial casters or can be disassembled into 6 manageable pieces in minutes. Note the attached truing stand and spoke cutter/threader on the ends of the bench, speakers in the cabinet (lower corners) and subwoofer below the file boxes. Ipod plugs in next to the file boxes. It rocks AND rolls.Attachment 735280Attachment 735283
The upper cabinet closes/locks in seconds.

This thread helped to get me to turn an extra room in the house into a nice workshop. I've been using all the Xmas sales to update my old/cheap tools and its starting to look complete. Counters in, pegboard in. I still need to get a nice vise. I'll stick some pics up soon.

Heres my new work room, I decided who needs an extra bedroom for visitors so I got rid of that stuff. I have 2 air mattress anyway. I redid the entire room. New fan/light, new electrical outlets and light switch. While painting, the left corner of the room felt funky so I cut into it and I found why the house had been sprayed for termites years ago before I bought it. Luckily the damage was limited to a few 2x4s in the corner so I replaced everything, resheetrocked and textured to match. It came out nice, to bad you cant see it behind the counters and pegboard.

I keep all my bike tools in the left side tackle box as I keep a stand outside and generally do most work out there when the weather is nice.

We just moved into a new house over the summer. I was finally able to give some attention to the garage to start getting everything setup. There's still plenty of work to do, but it's usable now. The toolbox on the right I just picked up used for cheap, it's a little beat, but it gave me more much needed storage space. Plus it has ball bearing drawer slides, which are way nicer than the friction slides my old box has. I also took the time to hang up decorations, including a couple of old busted frames. I made the hangers for the frames out of sections of old chain.

Yes, I bought it at a VW show when I had a GTI in my younger years. It adorned the front of a few different VWs over the years. I was told it was an authentic German plate, but I've never been there so I don't know...

Yes, I bought it at a VW show when I had a GTI in my younger years. It adorned the front of a few different VWs over the years. I was told it was an authentic German plate, but I've never been there so I don't know...

Looks like a German pre Euro plate, what I can see it a S which most likely means Stuttgart, the name of the city was on the silver sticker
and the other one was depending if its a front or rear plate the expiration date of the last inspection or smog check.

I really like the older GTI's, they did not have a lot power by todays standards
but they were very light and basic cars.

Wish I could say I did. I was in the process of fabricating a truing stand fairly similar till the house was robbed. Insurance company asked for pics of what we had and they would not buy raw materials only a finished truing stand. Closest they found was the one by P&K Lie so that is what is in the shop. With the lathe and mill I do fabricate quite a few parts for the bikes and everything else. On the signature link are a few little things I've done on the lathe.

We just moved into a new house over the summer. I was finally able to give some attention to the garage to start getting everything setup. There's still plenty of work to do, but it's usable now. The toolbox on the right I just picked up used for cheap, it's a little beat, but it gave me more much needed storage space. Plus it has ball bearing drawer slides, which are way nicer than the friction slides my old box has. I also took the time to hang up decorations, including a couple of old busted frames. I made the hangers for the frames out of sections of old chain.

And a nice 800 lb government desk as a foundation. I had one too til i decided it just took up too much room. Super well built.

This is what I currently have going on. Spare bedroom in our apartment. We are buying a house soon that has a garage and basement. I'm thinking bikes in the garage and ski waxing in the basement. Once we get moved it and situated after the baby is born in April, I'll post up the final results.